The Realizations of the Self
Recent discussions of self-realization have devolved into unscientific theories of self-help. However, this vague and often misused concept is connected to many important individual and social problems. As long as its meaning remains unclear, it can be ab
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The Realizations of the Self
Andrea Altobrando · Takuya Niikawa Richard Stone Editors
The Realizations of the Self
Editors Andrea Altobrando China University of Political Science and Law Beijing, China
Richard Stone Hokkaido University Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Takuya Niikawa Institut Jean Nicod Paris, France and Hokkaido University Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
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Contents
1 Introduction 1 Andrea Altobrando, Takuya Niikawa and Richard Stone Part I Understanding the Self 2
Is There a True Self? 15 Akiko Frischhut
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Non-contextual Self: Husserl and Nishida on the Primal Mode of the Self 31 Shigeru Taguchi
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Habits and the Diachronic Structure of the Self 47 Michael G. Butler and Shaun Gallagher
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Is Our Self Temporal? From the Temporal Features of the Brain’s Neural Activity to Self-Continuity and Personal Identity 65 Georg Northoff
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Self-Realization of the Economic Agent 91 Gilles Campagnolo v
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Part II Intermezzo—Speaking of Oneself 7
The Unstoried Life 113 Galen Strawson
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Muddling Through: An Episodic Conversation on Self, Narrativity, Transience, and Other Pleasantries 135 Galen Strawson and Andrea Altobrando
Part III Fulfilling the Self 9
Stoic Happiness as Self-Activity 167 Tomohiko Kondo
10 Realizing Oneself by Realizing What One Really Want
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